by David Guterson · Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442722495
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«Schnee, der auf Zedern fällt» is the novel by David Guterson, published by Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH in paperback (504 pages, in German).
On San Piedro Island in 1954, Japanese fisherman Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. Ishmael Chambers, journalist and World War II veteran, covers the trial and reunites with Hatsue, the defendant's wife and his former love. A snowfall isolates the island while prejudices and the wounds of Japanese internment surface.
Translation from English by Christa Krüger, with the original title «Snow Falling on Cedars». Novel winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1995.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery novels with a social backdrop, set in the postwar period.
David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is best known as the author of the bestselling Japanese American internment novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1994).
